APERTUS SIGNS NEW NORTH AMERICAN DISTRIBUTORS
MINNEAPOLIS, July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Apertus Technologies

Incorporated (NASDAQ: APTS), a developer and marketer of
internetworking products, today announced three new distributors in the
North American market with the signing of non-exclusive marketing
agreements with North American Gateway, Inc. of Redmond, Wash.; Reliable
Data Communications Inc. of Chicago; and WORDLINK Inc. of Champaign,
Ill.

"We see a major market opportunity for our products in the commercial marketplace and expect to generate significant interest from these distribution channels," said Robert D. Gordon, chairman and chief executive officer. Gordon went on to say, "We believe these distributors are highly qualified for distributing the Apertus communication processor products."
The Apertus product line, recently displayed at Spring Interop and ComNet, will be on display at Fall Interop, including a series of terminal networking and gateway products.
The terminal networking products enable businesses to preserve their major investment made in terminals and allows the connection of both synchronous and asynchronous terminals over TCP/IP and SNA-based, Ethernet, or Tvide interoperability between TCP/IP and IBM 3270 hosts, connect SNA LANs to IBM host resources via SDLC or channel connections, and connect Digital Equipment terminals to SNA environments.
Apertus' products are based on the Datastar communications platform -- a modular switch-based system that is easily reconfigurable and enables users to increase the size and functionality of their system as their network integration needs grow. The product can be scaled to meet large network requirements by adding modules to perform a variety of functions within the same system. To ensure high performance and throughput, each of the Datastar's modules has its own processor and dedicated memory, and communicates to each of the other modules through a high-speed 4, 8 or 16 channel 25 MB switch.
Apertus Technologies Incorporated, with its Networking Products Group and Enterprise Systems Group, facilitates the integration of heterogeneous computer environments within large corporate networks worldwide. The company is headquartered in suburban Minneapolis and has sales and service offices in Atlanta; Charlotte, N.C.; Chicago; Cleveland; Dallas; Denver; Detroit; Indianapolis; Los Angeles; New York; Philadelphia; St. Louis; South Bend, Ind.; and Washington, D.C.
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/CONTACT: Julie Cummins Brady of Apertus, 612-828-0301/
(APTS) CO: Apertus Technologies Incorporated; North American Gateway, Inc.;
Reliable Data Communications Inc.; WORLDLINK Inc. ST: Minnesota, Washington, Illinois IN: CPR SU: JVN

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